Quotes About Self-awareness

Watching, not doing. Seeking safety in not being seen. It's a habit you can fall into, willing yourself into invisibility. And it doesn't serve you well in life. Believe me it doesn't. Not with people and loves and hearts and homes and work. But for the first few days with a new hawk, making yourself disappear is the greatest skill in the world.

That I have remembered what it is, and how it can be done. But watching television from the sofa later that evening I notice tears running from my eyes and dropping into my mug of tea. Odd, I think. I put it down to tiredness. Perhaps I am getting a cold. Perhaps

I knew I wasn't mad mad because I'd seen people in the grip of psychosis before, and that was madness as obvious as the taste of blood in the mouth. The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.

Once Burns had admitted frankly that the most difficult thing he had to learn at Oxford was the English. What was it that David had said last summer? 'We are becoming a nation of professional eccentrics. Foreigners provide us with a stage, and we enjoy our little appearances all the more because we convince everyone, including ourselves, that we don't even notice the audience.

First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you've done so wrong so you can be sure not to do it anymore. After that you look for signs of a Jekyll and Hyde situation, the good and the bad in a person sifted into separate compartments by some weird accident. Then, gradually, you realize that there isn't a reason, and it isn't two people you're dealing with, just one. The same one every time.

Sometimes I do what I say I'm going to do, but more often I don't. It's a failing. The least of my failings, and the only one I feel up to admitting at the moment.

She never was able to surrender a feeling without a review of its peaks and low points.

There are still days when I can only work out whether or not I'm upset by looking at my face.

She found a mirror and turned around in front of it with her arms held out in front of her. She was all there, all in one piece. Then what? What had she lost?

There was a brass water pitcher set up in the center of the table, and a couple of times I found myself smiling at my reflection in the side of it, but stopped just before anyone caught me. The smile was a chinchilla fur kind of smile. Look what I got you, it seemed to say. And I can get you more.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Cuando te encuentras con alguien, recuerda que se trata de un encuentro santo. 2 Tal como lo consideres a él, así te considerarás a ti mismo. 3 Tal como lo trates, así te tratarás a ti mismo. 4 Tal como pienses de él, así pensarás de ti mismo.

Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? You will accept only whom you invite.

3 El ego es un intento de la mente errada para que te percibas a ti mismo tal como deseas ser, en vez de como realmente eres. 4 Sin embargo, sólo te puedes conocer a ti mismo como realmente eres, ya que de eso es de lo único que puedes estar seguro. 5 Todo lo demás es cuestionable.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. Whenever two Sons of God meet, they are given another chance at salvation. Do not leave anyone without giving salvation to him and receiving it yourself. For I am always there with you, in remembrance of you.

I love changing the way I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Being reflective also means listening to your inner self with new ears. The truth is, we think we've heard our own story so much that we stop listening to it! We become like the people in our lives who we complain don't listen to us. With reflection, we listen freshly to our selves, the way we would like to be listened to. There

So often, women tell me they are "confused." But confusion usually isn't all that confusing. Most of the time, it happens when someone you care about directly contradicts or invalidates what you know deep down to be true. Rather than risk losing the relationship, you give up your clarity—and get confused. Interestingly,

When you're inside yourself, you can feel happy, or angry, or terribly sad, or scared, or at peace. But whatever the feeling is, you feel "present." You feel like your feelings are coming from you. When you're caught in outside voices, however, you're most likely feeling awful, enraged, tense, anxious, or numb, though at times they can also make you feel excited or "high." But the difference is, the emotions feel like they're happening to you,

But feelings don't shift unless they're accepted exactly the way they are, neither more nor less. If they're intense, they're intense! Once they're accepted, they'll change into another form. But until then, they'll stick around. Bonnie,

Let's say you secretly want a Mustang convertible. Maybe that just says you want more fun and carefreeness in your life. The idea is to accept all that you are, and not label parts of yourself 'good' or 'bad.

I'm always ashamed when I discover how well-read other people are and how ignorant I am in comparison. If you saw the long list of famous books and authors I've never read you wouldn't believe it. My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of the page 20, say, I realize I can recite page 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.